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>> i think a lot of it is education. i mean, i write a lot about poverty abroad and the best escalator out of poverty, whether you're talking about tanzania or kentucky is education. and again, it doesn't work every time but the other commonality is whether you're in tanzania or in kentucky the kids who most desperately need that education escalator don't get it. >> i know a lot of people don't see the comparison because those test scores i mentioned at the top and your column. the first thing i thought is how many kids are out there who could be great scientists or great mathematicians and aren't having that opportunity because of their life circumstances. it's a fantastic -- i love your columns always but this one really got to me. people can see it at nytimes.com. thanks so much for coming on the program. >> thanks, chris. >> see you soon. >>> today's tweet of the day comes from u.n. ambassador susan rice. our children deserve a world that respects their differences and protects their freedoms. may we work fiercely to
>> i think a lot of it is education. i mean, i write a lot about poverty abroad and the best escalator out of poverty, whether you're talking about tanzania or kentucky is education. and again, it doesn't work every time but the other commonality is whether you're in tanzania or in kentucky the kids who most desperately need that education escalator don't get it. >> i know a lot of people don't see the comparison because those test scores i mentioned at the top and your column. the...
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if you quick basic education, education disrupts poverty. if you disropt poverty, you disrupt violence. but republicans have been unable, unwilling to talk about some of the root cause that is face this country in the most critical ways rather than drum beating, grandstanding, the politics of resentment just won't play, just won't resonate with these audiences. when they hear it, they say, well, heck, they're talking about me. >> absolutely not true. i like you a lot, but absolutely not true. if you look at what happened in the bush administration and you look what's going currently, we are spending billions upon billions of dollars in education. i would hazard however that the democrats aren't actually interested -- >> listen, listen -- >> here we go again. >> everybody else gets their point but the republican gets caught off. let me finish my point. >> go ahead. >> my point is republicans have said and the president opposed a voucher program in the district of columbia that actually helped low income people. why? because of the teachers un
if you quick basic education, education disrupts poverty. if you disropt poverty, you disrupt violence. but republicans have been unable, unwilling to talk about some of the root cause that is face this country in the most critical ways rather than drum beating, grandstanding, the politics of resentment just won't play, just won't resonate with these audiences. when they hear it, they say, well, heck, they're talking about me. >> absolutely not true. i like you a lot, but absolutely not...
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the education gap is quite apparent in pakistan. the country currently ranks close to the bottom when it comes to global education attendance rankings, but also a piece of good news from pakistan. the two girls who are with malala when she was injured, we have poken to them recently. they were also shot and injured. they have now recovered. they are back in school. they sent malala their well wishes, and they are determined to get their education. andrea. >> thank you so much for the update from london. >>> president obama has not yet made his decision about his choice to replace hillary clinton leaving suszan rice and john kerry both dangling in the wind. for rice this ahas opened the door for critics to pile on with no bhous defense since she is still officially not a nominee. michael hamlin, director of research for the foreign policy -- michael, i know you worked with susan, and was her spirit and what can her defenders do since she is not officially a nominee? it's awfully hard to -- for her to mount a defense. >> hi, andrea. t
the education gap is quite apparent in pakistan. the country currently ranks close to the bottom when it comes to global education attendance rankings, but also a piece of good news from pakistan. the two girls who are with malala when she was injured, we have poken to them recently. they were also shot and injured. they have now recovered. they are back in school. they sent malala their well wishes, and they are determined to get their education. andrea. >> thank you so much for the...
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let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. i'd like to thank eating right, whole grain, multigrain cheerios! mom, are those my jeans? [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios >>> when i want to talk about something so geeky that i'm pushing the limits that even the "the rachel maddow show" staff of geeks will tolerate, the producers here get me to do it in two minutes or less. tonight's challenge comes in something i mentioned earlier. the medicare eligibility age. sexy topic right? try to control yourself, audience. despite the fact it's unpopular, republicans really want to make cuts in medicare and want to raise the age by two years from 65 to 67. that's also super unpopular. but the white house is open to it. they are open to it in 2011 in the boehner/obama talks. what's weird is it's always presented as the height of fiscal responsibility even though it's fiscal
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thank you for educating me on sports. it's important. all right. let's get a check of the weather. it's also important. too bad we don't have someone who knows what he's doing. >> he is professional. >> costing too much. >> it would. it definitely would. all right, take it away. try to make it look good. >> good morning, everyone. temperatures have plunged. it's a cold morning. we're back into december type weather. great lakes and through new england. wind chills this morning, especially in new england are a little bit on the brutal side. down into the teens and even single digits there in northern maine. all the way down to washington, d.c. it's a morning where you want to throw on the heavy winter coat, gloves and hats for the kids. in chicago it's chilly too. this afternoon we'll see sunshine. it will be a nice mid-atlantic period. the midwest is already warmed up after a little recent cold spurt. look at dallas still, mid 70s. we head towards the middle of december. let me show you examples of the forecast over the next couple days. enjoy the sunshine today in the mid-atlantic
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i lived in japan five years and they had a very good early childhood education program. there's very limited class difference and i think that that has worked pretty well and, you know, bringing, everybody prepared to participate in the labor force. >> just bring this up, again, i think there are some people who don't watch the show regularly, but, of course, they heard that nick was coming on and like one direction. >> you should see my twitter, it's going wild. >> nick crikristof is on, my far was unemployed in the 1970s and $40 in mississippi, once a week, allowed him to buy groceries for his kids and put a tank of gas in the car. so, these programs, there are extremes and there are problems, but mike said, this won't break the country, but certainly destroying lives. >> there are, you know, blind kids who desperately need their families at home and that support makes a huge diffdiffer. the problem is when you have much more ambiguous situations and parents think they can gain the cyst. two-thirds of these kids on child disability become disabled as adults. they never
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board of education when they are handing out these orders extending the principle at public accommodations. but it has a marriage case and gets rid of it and says this is too soon. and so it sits 11 years later to take it up. many of us thought this is exactly what's going to happen with the prop 8 case. the doma case is slightly different. but many of us thought the prop 8 case it's going to go back. it's going to be legal in california but nowhere else and the court is going to wait another ten years. >> so what are the implications -- the differing implications of how they could rule? what different parts of the gay marriage question e could they resolve? >> the doma case is a much more easy case. all it does is to return congress to its original position of following whatever states say the definition of marriage are. so it was crafted because it's a movement. they tend to be pro-state's rights and the liberals are pro-gay so arguing towards the middle, these are justice kennedy's favorite things. that's clearly a fifth vote for this case. we assume. so i think everyone imagined everyo
board of education when they are handing out these orders extending the principle at public accommodations. but it has a marriage case and gets rid of it and says this is too soon. and so it sits 11 years later to take it up. many of us thought this is exactly what's going to happen with the prop 8 case. the doma case is slightly different. but many of us thought the prop 8 case it's going to go back. it's going to be legal in california but nowhere else and the court is going to wait another...
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they're also going to consider affirmative action in higher education admissions. it seems as if, david nakamura, this court may be going out of its way to make sure that the court itself has a chapter in constitutional law books. >> absolutely. it's a historic time. especially on some of the social and racial issues. and that's a big step for them. you know, it's interesting. i remember the president warning at times about an activist court. he doesn't want to see them overstep their bounds. but i think as noam sort of mentioned, these issues are going to push the president to come out. he did so. we'll see how the administration tries to take that and sort of approach that, because we saw even last spring they sort of fumbled it when vice president got out in front of the president. and was that design or was that a mistake, a gaffe. i think as we get to that time when the court is going to take this up in the summer, you know, we'll see how they approach it. but i think they're going to have to have a strategy. >> noam scheiber, david nakamura. thanks for your t
they're also going to consider affirmative action in higher education admissions. it seems as if, david nakamura, this court may be going out of its way to make sure that the court itself has a chapter in constitutional law books. >> absolutely. it's a historic time. especially on some of the social and racial issues. and that's a big step for them. you know, it's interesting. i remember the president warning at times about an activist court. he doesn't want to see them overstep their...
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board of education, which the court held unanimously separate was unconstitutional. so why wait until 1967 to hear the case about interracial marriage. here are all of the states that had laws on the books in 1947 banning interracial marriage. by 1967 only 16 states still had those laws on the books. in the two decades between 1947 and 1967, the years the supreme court was staying mum on the issue, most states decided on their own it was unconstitutional to ban interracial marriage, or at least was. the court was following on their heels, following the heels of public opinion. this is a big debate in the legal world. is the supreme court influenced by american public opinion? these are nine people who could completely ignore the will of the people. they are appointed for life. no election. no culpability. they can totally ignore us if they choose. many legal experts say that's not how it works. supreme court justices are, in fact, swayed by what people in this country think about issues. today the supreme court announced it would hear two cases involving same-sex mar
board of education, which the court held unanimously separate was unconstitutional. so why wait until 1967 to hear the case about interracial marriage. here are all of the states that had laws on the books in 1947 banning interracial marriage. by 1967 only 16 states still had those laws on the books. in the two decades between 1947 and 1967, the years the supreme court was staying mum on the issue, most states decided on their own it was unconstitutional to ban interracial marriage, or at least...
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, and educate their children. these rights are reasonable and should be enforced. >> reverend jackson, you and i have known each other a long time. did you ever think you would be in michigan leading a protest against right to work? >> i really did not. i think that the tea party has 150-year-old roots between what is -- the right it organize, collective bargaining and states rights. i never thought it would go this far north, and, yet, these workers in this state must fight back and draw a line in the sand. that's why i'm going to address a major one-day strike, maybe a one-day march on washington for massive and action to bring about the ship in the flow of the wind. >> reverend jesse jackson, bob king from the united autoworkers. thank you very much. i know it's a cold day. thanks for joining us from michigan. >> thank you. >>> and let's make a deal. can president obama and the speaker get it done? we'll ask our experts coming up next. plus, the latest intelligence on syria's chemical weapons stockpile from def
, and educate their children. these rights are reasonable and should be enforced. >> reverend jackson, you and i have known each other a long time. did you ever think you would be in michigan leading a protest against right to work? >> i really did not. i think that the tea party has 150-year-old roots between what is -- the right it organize, collective bargaining and states rights. i never thought it would go this far north, and, yet, these workers in this state must fight back...
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they've established the malala fund which will promote girls' education around the world. pakistan says it will donate $10 million to the fund. mala lalala is now recovering ik hospital. of year again. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind. >>> the crisis in egypt over its draft constitution is getting even more volatile. as of today, the military is protecting government buildings until the results of the constitutional referendum this saturday. opponents say the new constitution would enshrine islamic law turning the country into a religious state. michael sing, managing director for the washington institute for near east policy and former senior dir
they've established the malala fund which will promote girls' education around the world. pakistan says it will donate $10 million to the fund. mala lalala is now recovering ik hospital. of year again. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and...
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. >> is our education system outdated? >> no. >> our union advocacy, is that outdated, how they go about fighting for it? i don't know. that question was put on the table. whether factories are shut, that means jobs have left. if you look at wages enjoyed by workers in right-to-work states, i think it should be put on the table. where do they fare? i have not done the analysis so it's hard to say. >> it's a question, though, willie, whether you want the job or not. >> right. >> i asked bob riley, i've said this 1,000 times, it seems extraordinarily important if you're a union member in the northeast, and like me, you want your factories running again. i asked bob riley, i don't understand, why did mercedes go to tuscaloosa county, alabama, instead of filling up the factories in connecticut? 15 minutes away from yale. or in rhode island. 20 minutes away from brown. i mean, right by some of the most highly trained, brilliant minds in the world. that's easy. the work force rules are so insane there, there's no way that merced
. >> is our education system outdated? >> no. >> our union advocacy, is that outdated, how they go about fighting for it? i don't know. that question was put on the table. whether factories are shut, that means jobs have left. if you look at wages enjoyed by workers in right-to-work states, i think it should be put on the table. where do they fare? i have not done the analysis so it's hard to say. >> it's a question, though, willie, whether you want the job or not....
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let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> republicans have talked a lot about losing minorities in 2012. but they may have a bigger problem, folks. they may be losing the political middle. today a deep dive into our patchwork nation. a look at how president obama and mitt romney fared in various parts of the country. of course the patchwork nation project breaks the u.s. into 12 types of communities. go to my trusty board here. remind you, boom towns, military, money, evangelical epicenters, mormon outposts, immigration nations, service worker centers, industrial metropolitan and tractor countries. going into the election, this is what we were telling you. mitt romney needed to do this well in the typical gop strongholds. evangelical centers, tractor country, mormon, look at this. he did out perform bush in all of these areas. all of these areas. he increased bush's margins or stayed the same in the key republican areas. and if you look
let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> republicans have talked a lot about losing minorities in 2012. but they may have a bigger problem, folks. they may be losing the political middle. today a deep dive into our patchwork nation. a look at how president obama and mitt romney fared in various parts of the country. of course the patchwork nation project breaks the u.s. into 12 types of...
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help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this.
help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this.
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she's certainly well educated and has really served our nation well as ambassador to the united nations. >> all right. and msnbc's lawrence o'donnell. all coming up after the break. >>> "me >>> coming up here, as hillary clinton prepares to step down as secretary of state, her popularity has soared to an all-time high. according to a new poll out this week, 66% view the country's top diplomat favorably, up from 44% in 2008. what does that mean for her fut that's one of washington's favorites, what if. and a video that was played here in d.c. left the political world abuzz, especially after comments like these from benjamin netanyahu and british prime minister tony blair. >> someone who knows a thing or two about political comeback, i can tell you i don't think we've heard the last of hillary clinton. ♪ girl, you're amazing ♪ just the way you are >> i just have an instinct that the best is yet to come. >> according to that same poll, 57% say they would back a clinton presidential bid. later, we'll talk more about 2016, whether clinton will run and >>> we're back now with the roundtab
she's certainly well educated and has really served our nation well as ambassador to the united nations. >> all right. and msnbc's lawrence o'donnell. all coming up after the break. >>> "me >>> coming up here, as hillary clinton prepares to step down as secretary of state, her popularity has soared to an all-time high. according to a new poll out this week, 66% view the country's top diplomat favorably, up from 44% in 2008. what does that mean for her fut that's one...
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help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> there's a whole heck of a lot going on in tri. burglars broke into darrell issa's home a few days ago stealing about $100,000 worth of jewelry. they say the stolen items were priceless heirlooms. >>> nikki haley is looking to replace jim demint. south carolina native and favorite son stephen colbert with with an idea of who should fill that seat. >> who will she pick? you want somebody young and conservative, somebody from south carolina. maybe somebody who had a super pac. wait a second. >> watch where you point that thing. it's powerful. okay. >> governor haley jokingly writing thank you for your interest in the u.s. senate seat, but you didn't know our state drink. big, big mistake. for the record the state drink in south carolina is milk. the 2012 presidential election broke the $2 billion mark making it the most expensive race in american plital history. federal
help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> there's a whole heck of a lot going on in tri. burglars broke into darrell issa's home a few days ago stealing about $100,000 worth of jewelry. they say the stolen items were priceless heirlooms. >>> nikki haley is looking to replace jim demint. south...
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do you really want to slash transportation, education, r&d? you don't have the courage to go after the entitlement programs. and i say this, as you know, to my republican party as well as to your democratic party -- >> yeah, no, as frightening as this whole mustache thing was, sitting in the green room and listening to you and agreeing with you so wholeheartedly -- >> disturbed you, didn't it. >> what we can't do is eat our seed corn. >> right. >> education, research and development and energy. these are things that are central to our ability to grow the economy, to prepare people for the economy. >> it's such a small part of the budget. >> i understand. but you see, here's what's going on. there are two kinds of approaches to this. the one approach says we've got this deficit problem, and we want to address it. the other is the norquist approach, which is really more about reducing government to its irreducible core. and that is an indiscriminate sort of slashing. that's the wrong path for the country. and that's the path we can't take. >> th
do you really want to slash transportation, education, r&d? you don't have the courage to go after the entitlement programs. and i say this, as you know, to my republican party as well as to your democratic party -- >> yeah, no, as frightening as this whole mustache thing was, sitting in the green room and listening to you and agreeing with you so wholeheartedly -- >> disturbed you, didn't it. >> what we can't do is eat our seed corn. >> right. >> education,...
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she's certainly well educated and has really served our nation well as ambassador to the united nations. >> all right. we'll leave it there. senator durbin, congressman mccarthy, thank you very much. >> thank you for having us. >>> coming up, the showdown over the debt. who wins and who loses? including why one prominent republican observer i talked to this week says that the president actually wants to go over the cliff. who was it? what did he mean? find out after the break. former speaker newt gingrich. julianna goldman. helene cooper of "the new york times" is back. "the washington post's" bob woodward. and msnbc's lawrence o'donnell. all coming up after the break. >>> "meet the press" is brought to you by the boeing company. >>> coming up here, as hillary clinton prepares to step down as secretary of state, her popularity has soared to an all-time high. according to a new poll out this week, 66% view the country's top diplomat favorably, up from 44% in 2008. what does that mean for her future? that's one of washington's favorites, what if. and a video that was played here in d.c. l
she's certainly well educated and has really served our nation well as ambassador to the united nations. >> all right. we'll leave it there. senator durbin, congressman mccarthy, thank you very much. >> thank you for having us. >>> coming up, the showdown over the debt. who wins and who loses? including why one prominent republican observer i talked to this week says that the president actually wants to go over the cliff. who was it? what did he mean? find out after the...
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board of education for gay and lesbian couples. or the case before it that embraced segregation. it's very hard to predict. it leaves many of us very, very nervous. it's not just the 120,000 couples in this country who are gay or lesbian and married but it affects all of us. we currently have a country that disenfranchises people who want to marry for love and we don't let them. 31 states prohibit those type of marriages. >> a lot of people come back to the 1960s in loving versus west virginia and whether it will mirror that merely 50 years later. the court, though, has ten marriage equality cases to choose from. as i pointed out, they only chose two. if i know this correctly, they had eight different ones to consider choosing and two prop 8 ones. they have one doma and one prop 8. >> what's fascinating, this is a court that has avoided this issue. it's been pathological. everyone in lawrence v. texas, the opinion was distorted in my ways because of a clear effort not to say anything that would have baring on the same-sex marriage issue. suddenly, they take two issues with the br
board of education for gay and lesbian couples. or the case before it that embraced segregation. it's very hard to predict. it leaves many of us very, very nervous. it's not just the 120,000 couples in this country who are gay or lesbian and married but it affects all of us. we currently have a country that disenfranchises people who want to marry for love and we don't let them. 31 states prohibit those type of marriages. >> a lot of people come back to the 1960s in loving versus west...
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like brown versus board of education. it's time to say you have the right to be in a committed relationship with the person you love and the government shouldn't tell you who that is. it's a simple, clear-cut case and i certainly hope the supreme court agrees. >> democratic congressman, jared polis of colorado, do appreciate your time. >> coming up. >> someone get corey booker a super hero cape. the latest adventure of the newark mayor. he's at it again. >>> and then we flash back to 1992, when separation beset the house of windsor, stay tuned, you're watching msnbc. eat good fats. avoid bad. don't go over 2000... 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story keeps changing. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. search great grains and see for yourself. for multi grain fl
like brown versus board of education. it's time to say you have the right to be in a committed relationship with the person you love and the government shouldn't tell you who that is. it's a simple, clear-cut case and i certainly hope the supreme court agrees. >> democratic congressman, jared polis of colorado, do appreciate your time. >> coming up. >> someone get corey booker a super hero cape. the latest adventure of the newark mayor. he's at it again. >>> and then...
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let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> 46 past the hour. >> my goodness. >> welcome back to "morning joe." >> oh, my goodness, you showed up. how was nice this morning? >> god, i don't go to nice. >> i don't understand, so you're flying back, when do you have to fly back from nice to get here in time? >> i don't. rattner would know. >> supersonic. transmogrifies. >> don't do that because everyone thinks i go to the south of france. >> you do all the time. who's with us? >> here with us now, senior contributor and columnist for the peek, matt lewis. >> he goes to south georgia. >> how is south georgia this time of year? he writes in "the week," "the most underappreciated political trend of our time maying the loss of power wielded by the speaker of the house. through little fault of his own, john boehner has essentially become a feckless herder of cats. has any job deteriorated faster than the speaker of the house? the position was on
let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> 46 past the hour. >> my goodness. >> welcome back to "morning joe." >> oh, my goodness, you showed up. how was nice this morning? >> god, i don't go to nice. >> i don't understand, so you're flying back, when do you have to fly back from nice to get here in time? >> i don't. rattner would know. >>...